In order to extend its destinations network even further and to meet its customers’ demands, Ural Airlines is to offer more Yekaterinburg-Rome flights starting March 23, 2011. The destination proved quite popular last year (the total passenger traffic for Yekaterinburg-Rome and Rome-Yekaterinburg flights came to 5,995 people in 2010), with the demand increasing by the hour. So, one can now fly to Rome twice a week, any Sunday or Wednesday.

More flights to Italy’s capital became possible thanks to the company’s long-term fleet upgrade program – Ural Airlines will get four new Airbus planes from the A 320 family (three A321 ones and one A320 plane) in 2011, which means the number of foreign aircraft owned by the carrier will rise to eighteen by the end of the year, thus allowing for more trips in all directions.